If you are the publisher or author and feel that the reviews shown do not … - NPR ‘What separates Schweblin from the pack is the firm foot she has planted in frank horror, and her laconic style… Mouthful of Birds is precisely that rare mix: beauty and horror.' After a small struggle, the bird shrieks and vanishes, and then she smiles, sheepish, her ‘red teeth’ sickening her father. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. Mouthful of Birds is a stunning achievement from a writer whose potential is beginning to seem limitless." - Minneapolis Star-Tribune From dark fields off a highway rippled with masses of screaming women, a pregnancy that shrinks backwards to the size of a pill to children disappear in a hole in the ground. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Schweblin, Samantha. This information about Mouthful of Birds shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter. * Minneapolis Star-Tribune * 'Dark, unsettling images, a sort of half-fevered, all-dazed awareness of the world outside. Mouthful of Birds is like a couple of nightmares. • Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin (translated by Megan McDowell) is published by Oneworld (£12.99). —NPR “[T]he stories cumulatively summon a world in which the civilized is constantly receding and to be a human is to live in a state of desperation.” —The New Yorker Felicity has been dropped off in … A Mouthful of Birds (Photo: Dixie Sheridan) Passion, possession, and obsession are primary themes in The Bacchae by Euripides. A dark and dreamy collection by Schweblin (Fever Dream, 2017), like an eerie walk through a perpetual twilight of uneasy—and often absurdly funny—states of consciousness and being.In these 20 swiftly running stories, unimpeachably translated from Spanish by McDowell, Schweblin explores the slippery terrain of the mind's deeper recesses, where anxieties over the … Mouthful of Birds. Oneworld Publications, 2019. The crunch of a bird’s wing. Schweblin opens her collection of short stories with the story, Headlights, a story with a strong sense of feminist rage. Schweblin is an absolute master.' The title story in Samanta Schweblin’s new collection, Mouthful of Birds, features a man finding out that his teenage daughter has taken to eating pet birds.He is revolted, as are we, when she skips over to the cage and opens her mouth wide. The cover of Mouthful of Birds is at once beautiful and rather disconcerting. To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. 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